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The show features unique and surprising real-life stories, providing viewers with fascinating insights into unusual events and achievements.

A quiz variety show where participants solve puzzles and brain teasers designed by top Japanese creators. The show aims to entertain while providing mental exercises, making it both fun and educational.

From Japan's most famous haiku locations, HAIKU MASTERS introduces Photo Haikus sent in from around the world with its unique take on the art form, creating the ultimate social haiku experience.

A-list celebrities, cultural icons, top athletes, and other high-profile people meet with Hiroiki Ariyoshi, the show’s emcee, to confess a mistake from their past that’s been nagging them.

Learn useful phrases and cool kanji through these 15-minute programs, and you'll realize that "Japanese is easy!"

Japanese food, especially sushi, has become an internationally beloved cuisine, especially with the announcement of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. But there are always restaurants that look to capitalize off the reputation of traditional Japanese food. They serve dishes like rolls covered in cream cheese and teriyaki sauce, monstrosities that belong nowhere in a real sushi restaurant! Enter the Sushi Police. The defenders of Japanese culture and tradition, the World Food-culture Conservation Organization was created, and its 9th Unit was ordered to smite down any restaurant in the world that besmirch the name of sushi. They travel the globe in a giant ship-shaped blimp, literally landing on the offenders, leaving a destroyed restaurant in their wake.

Terry Ito takes a group of local beauties to the most exciting and secret nightspots in the country.

A talk show set in a bar, where hosts Okamura and Ishida chat with various celebrities, drawing out exclusive stories and personal anecdotes.

A music variety show naming after Sanma Akashiya

CoCO and her sister NiCO are under training to become graceful and elegant cat princesses. They are watched over and trained by the strict but caring Lady Oppenheimer. CoCO and NiCO keeps Lady Oppenheimer quite busy as they try their best to learn the ways of a princess, and have fun with a little mischief along the way.

Music producer Tetsuya Komuro, model/actress Elaiza Ikeda, C-channel president Akira Morikawa, and Tokyo Girls Collection executive producer Noriyoshi Murakami. What are the impacts of social networking? Have we evolved to live in this connected-yet-closed world? Or has it set us back? We're living in an entangled world. A world centered around girls. Invisible TOKYO.

Okamura Yasuyuki creates songs in a variety of styles with melodies and arrangements that absorb and develop the essence of various music genres such as black music, rock, pop, and popular songs, and has a unique presence with his fresh, one-of-a-kind lyrics that depict the subtleties of youth and love. Not only does he write the lyrics and compose the music, but he also plays almost all the instruments himself during recordings, and the unique world view he creates with his diverse talents has captivated many audiences. In January 2016, he released his long-awaited original album "Koufuku", his first in about 11 and a half years, and has decided to embark on a nationwide tour "Koufuku" from Saturday, April 9th. In the program, Okamura Yasuyuki, Ito Seiko, and Okamoto Reiji (OKAMOTO'S) go on a journey in search of "happiness".

A series of original anime shorts that take place in an alternate timeline where the aliens' attack never happened. It consists of 6 stories and serves as a bridge between "Inazuma Eleven" and "Inazuma Eleven Ares no Tenbin"

Follows a boy named Gen who time travels from the year 2020 to a distant future where humanity has gone extinct. He begins staying at the Ganko family home in the Rustling Forest, where he has none of the amenities he is used to: no electricity, gas, or running water, as well as no television, smartphones, convenience stores, snacks, or games.

Short Series

Shibuya Note (シブヤノオト) is a music show that has been broadcasted on NHK on Sunday from April 24, 2016, and is a post-program of "Music Japan", and a sister program of "NAOMI no Heya" (NAOMI's room).

Hikuma Koichi, a former saxophone player who has turned his back on music due to the aftereffects of an accident, becomes the advisor of a small brass band at a run-down high school. He has to deal with problem students who have lost their dreams as well as the teachers’ opposition to a professional musician entering the classroom. The path is not easy for him. Even so, Hikuma rediscovers his dream, confronts the students head-on and starts to coach the band. Despite their bewilderment, the students begin to reciprocate his passion for music.

Japanese castles seen through the eyes of a lady wearing traditional kimono. Detailed historical and construction information is presented along with an introduction to castle surroundings and local food specialties.

Kyoto is a city that captivates the hearts of people throughout the four seasons. The beauty of spring, the cherry blossom season, is truly exceptional. In this programme, we will bring you a live broadcast from Daigo-ji Temple, associated with Toyotomi Hideyoshi, featuring evocative footage of Kyoto’s cherry blossoms alongside a variety of topics. ‘What made the legendary “Daigo Hanami” so remarkable?’ ‘A chef from a long-established Kyoto ryotei takes on the challenge of recreating “Taiko Hideyoshi’s Hanami Bento!?”’ ‘What is the mysterious architectural masterpiece left behind by the passion for modernisation in the Meiji era?’ ‘Cherry blossoms that travelled through space??’ and much more. Please enjoy Kyoto in the full bloom of spring to the very last detail.